On Thu, 7 Mar 2002 08:21:19 +0530, Santanu Chatterjee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote :
> > K.Ghosh wrote: > > >I also have some fat32 partitions in my > >system and to mount them, I added the appropriate entries in /etc/fstab. > >On reboot RH7.2 complained that fat32 support was still in alpha, and > >hung up. There was no way I could go past this, so I reinstalled RH7.2. > >After this, even changing the fstab entry as above, RH7.2 does not see > >my cdrom. Do the above symptoms help in the diagnosis ? > > Seems strange to me. Don't have any fat partitions on my system. > Can't comment > > >I also would like to try linux hdb=cdrom at boot time. Any suggestions? > > Don't know about that. Go ahead. There's probably a similar option in > BIOS too IIRC. If this works, please let us know. It will make my job > easier if I run into similar problem in Mandrake 8.2 :-) > By the way, there's also another option you can try if your dmesg > output contains something like this "CDROM...0x03f0 in use". In this case > you can try the boot line option (see BootPrompt HOWTO for details) > > reserve=0x300,32 blah=0x300 > (keeps all device drivers except the driver for `blah' from probing 0x300-0x31f.) > > Also, since you are willing to reinstall, you can first install Red Hat 7.1 and > upgrade it to 7.2 That way, most probably, your old kernels will also appear as > options in LILO prompt. You can use them to work with the CDROM. I tried this > when I upgraded to Mandrake 8.1 on our college computer and it worked. > > HTH > > Regards, > Santanu Chatterjee I am in RH7.2 now, and my CDROM is also working fine. The trouble was my second HDD (260MB Seagate vintage) which is not welcomed by all flavours of RH from 5.2 thru now 7.2, because of its DMA-intr problem. Though none of the RH's had objected so vehemently as 7.2. The discovery of the solution was purely accidental. I wanted to go back to RH7.1, and 7.1 was complaining about kernel panic, which I knew from past experience was due to the presence of my vintage. So, I changed my BIOS setting not to recognise this HDD, and tried to install 7.1 and failed again. During my next boot-up with 7.2, I had the 7.1 CD still in the drive and when I started X, my prodigal CDROM drive came right back, and is also quite tolerant of the vintage drive, which I have reinstalled. Just for completeness, I had tried all the suggestions given above and earlier, but none had helped. Now, a minor irritation remains. During boot-up, 7.2 sticks at 'checking filesystems' and proceeds further only when prodded with a cntl-c. This is because I am asking for a vfat partition on my vintage disk to be mounted through fstab. Mounting does take place and read/write to the vfat is without any problem. Why should this happen ? Never faced this problem in 7.1 or earlier. Regards, K.Ghosh. _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
